Re: electronic ballots

2001-01-30 Thread Carl Ellison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 05:28 PM 1/25/01 -0600, (Mr) Lyn R. Kennedy wrote: >First the basics: > > 1. An electronic election system need only be as good as the current > system. While perfection remains the goal, the minimum criteria > is that it be no worse. Aft

Re: Leo Marks

2001-01-30 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
The obituary has, at long last, prompted me to write a brief review of Marks' book "Between Silk and Cyanide". The capsule summary: read it, and try to understand what he's really teaching about cryptography, amidst all the amusing anecdotes and over-the-top writing. The main lesson is about

Re: Dutch defense minister warns other countries have Echelon-type spy networks

2001-01-30 Thread Enzo Michelangeli
- Original Message - From: "John Gilmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 7:52 AM Subject: Dutch defense minister warns other countries have Echelon-type spy networks > [I haven't seen the original documents, so consider thi

Re: Dutch defense minister warns other countries have Echelon-type spy networks

2001-01-30 Thread Ulf Möller
> [I haven't seen the original documents, so consider this only a rumor > at this point. Anyone have more info? -- John] http://parlando.sdu.nl/cgi/showdoc/doc/anonymous:62665/4/0/KST50892.pdf/0/KST50892.pdf (I don't know if that is a permanent URL. If not, search for document number 27591, nr

What Powell and Ashcroft think of crypto and Carnivore

2001-01-30 Thread Declan McCullagh
Here's something on where Powell stands on crypto export regs, and what Reno thought of them during her farewell press conference: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,41452,00.html Also, John Ashcroft has replied to written questions sent to him by members of the Senate Judiciary committee.

Cryptographers Amici Briefs

2001-01-30 Thread John Young
For appeal of the MPAA v. 2600 decision: Brief Amici Curiae of Steven Bellovin, Matt Blaze, Dan Boneh, Dave Del Torto, Ian Goldberg, Bruce Schneier, Frank Andrew Stevenson, David Wagner: http://www.2600.com/dvd/docs/2001/0126-crypto-amicus.txt Brief Amicus Curiae of Arnold Reinhold: h

Re: electronic ballots

2001-01-30 Thread William Allen Simpson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Thanks everyone for the helpful comments. I've combined them as well as I could. Some folks sent privately, as indicated. David Honig wrote: > > At 01:03 PM 1/25/01 -0500, William Allen Simpson wrote: > >I've been working with Congresswoman Lynn Rivers on l

Dutch defense minister warns other countries have Echelon-type spy networks

2001-01-30 Thread John Gilmore
[I haven't seen the original documents, so consider this only a rumor at this point. Anyone have more info? -- John] Translation of report by Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad on 20 January The Hague, 20 January: Systems used to "bug" telephones, faxes and e-mail, like the American-British Eche

Re: electronic ballots

2001-01-30 Thread Arnold G. Reinhold
At 1:03 PM -0500 1/25/2001, William Allen Simpson wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >I've been working with Congresswoman Lynn Rivers on language for >electronic ballots. My intent is to specify the security sensitive >information, and encourage widespread implementation in a competiti

Leo Marks

2001-01-30 Thread R. A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Chris Ogden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Robert Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Leo Marks Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 10:26:29 - MONDAY JANUARY 22 2001 Obituary Leo Marks Codebreaker who saved agents’ lives by improving the se

DeCSS ruling in DVD case must be reversed, eight amicus briefs say

2001-01-30 Thread Declan McCullagh
Eight different coalitions -- from cryptographers to journalist groups -- are filing amicus briefs in the DVD/DeCSS case. The briefs -- an unusually high number -- urge that the Second Circuit Court of Appeals overturn the district court's ruling of last August. Wired News article on the brief

SDMI watermarks

2001-01-30 Thread Ulf Möller
Now that Princeton has given in to the SDMI's lawyers, two French cryptographers are publishing independent results on removing the watermarks. Their technical report is worth reading: http://www.julienstern.org/sdmi/

Re: electronic ballots

2001-01-30 Thread (Mr) Lyn R. Kennedy
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:03:49PM -0500, William Allen Simpson wrote: > > I've been working with Congresswoman Lynn Rivers on language for > electronic ballots. My intent is to specify the security sensitive > information, and encourage widespread implementation in a competitive > environmen

Re: electronic ballots

2001-01-30 Thread David Honig
At 01:03 PM 1/25/01 -0500, William Allen Simpson wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >I've been working with Congresswoman Lynn Rivers on language for >electronic ballots. My intent is to specify the security sensitive >information, and encourage widespread implementation in a competit

my padlock

2001-01-30 Thread Carl Ellison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://world.std.com/~cme/html/padlock.html It's self-explanatory. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.2 iQA/AwUBOnSoNXPxfjyW5ytxEQLviwCfahPcp0FGP+1UB4cs0J6MlN2Em20AoMhq CHIn1FgxwKhGz8LR9S6WzSkF =/Izn -END PGP SIGNATURE- +